This paper is a historiographical review of selected significant scholarship on widowhood in India. Most important conclusion that the difference experiences India premised upon fact high-caste customs and cultural codes has created disadvantageous gender equation for women. Nineteenth century legal-reformist debates around sati, widow remarriage age consent were templates which deep anxieties ...

Abstract Living with chronic disease is common in later life and over 60% of adults 65+ have two or more conditions. Spousal loss, also late adulthood, linked to diseases, like heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, strokes. This study examines the associations between widowhood, race/ethnicity, onset multiple conditions (i.e., cancer, diabetes, stroke) among 4,187 Americans aged 60+. Using RAN...